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US Feds Shut Down Megaupload.com File-Sharing Website
SoylentGreen:
US Feds Shut Down Megaupload.com File-Sharing Website
http://techland.time.com/2012/01/19/feds-shut-down-megaupload-com-file-sharing-website/
They did it without SOPA.
The Justice Department said in a statement said that Kim Dotcom, formerly known as Kim Schmitz, and three others were arrested Thursday in New Zealand at the request of U.S. officials.
S.G.
SoylentGreen:
In a further development, hacker group "anonymous" retaliates by knocking the US Department of Justice (www.justice.gov) offline in a distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS):
http://money.cnn.com/2012/01/19/technology/megaupload_shutdown/
S.G.
SoylentGreen:
The following sites are down intermittently due to distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS) attacks:
www.copyright.gov - US Copyright Office
www.riaa.com - Recording Industry Association of America
www.mpaa.org/ - Motion Picture Associaton
S.G.
Bekka:
Here is the indictment. Click on "read in full here." It lists their assets.
http://techfleece.com/2012/01/20/megaupload-shut-down-by-the-feds/
Robert Krausankas (BuddhaPi):
And to think that the folks that find us really think they are in really big trouble over 1 or 2 images!
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